Administrator gets suspended sentence in other impaired driving case

Jun. 27, 2013

SALISBURY — The school administrator who pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol earlier this month received an additional 60-day suspended sentence in connection with a different impaired driving case.

Howard John Kotz III, the dean of students at Choices, the alternative school in Wicomico County, was sentenced to 30 days in jail with 11 additional months suspended on June 12. The driving under the influence of alcohol charge dated back to a March 7 incident.

In a separate driving while impaired charge for a June 21, 2012, incident, he received probation before judgment and was found to have violated his probation, court records show. The verdict is now guilty, and he received the 60-day suspended sentence in this case on Wednesday in District Court in Salisbury.

He’ll also face three years of supervised probation during which he will have to comply with various requirements, according to court records.

Wicomico County public schools spokeswoman Tracy Sahler said today that Kotz remains on administrative leave.